Watch Washington’s ‘nutcracker lady’ on Conan

Arlene Wagner was the first guest to walk across the stage in Conan O’Brien’s new late-night show on TBS.

Then she just kept on walking.

The curator of the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum was featured as the winner of a blatantly rigged poll to determine the first guest. She walked onstage next to a life-sized nutcracker, waved at the audience and exited to the studio’s back lot.

The band sang: “You’re the first guest on Conan. The most important person in the world.”